Sorry if they're flowers but I have been just busy with concerts and rehearsals that really had nothing else to use. Came out pretty nice, I think.
Post: Convert from raw in PSElements3.0 with a +0.33 exposure compensation. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. New layer of hue/sat on colorized and move the hue and sat sliders all they way to the left for black and white. New Layer of levels resetting the black and white points. New Layer of brightness contrast and then another layer of Hue/saturation on colorize with hue on 50 and saturation on 25 for this muted gold tone. Sharpen. Crop. Resize. Sharpen.
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